Sammy Sofa
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No one is saying he's incapable of learning the position. It's just probably not the wisest thing in the world for a player in his first major league season to REGULARLY play a position he's never played as a professional. He's already having to adjust to major league pitching. And while he's hitting well for now, he's bound to have a slump. When that happens, I'd prefer if his focus wasn't divided between his offensive struggles and learning a new position, regardless of how easy said position may be. If the club had any ideas of making him into a first baseman, they would most likely do so during the offseason. This I can live with...All I am saying is this team is going nowhere this year, jerking him in and out of the lineup divides his focus more than going to 1st would...IMO. How is he being "jerked in and out of the lineup?" How is he not? Because he's just getting starts when the regular starters are getting a day off. Or when they've had DH flexibility. Or he comes in as a PH or a defensive replacement. You know, the things baseball players do. How is this him being "jerked in and out of the lineup?" -
Jesus [expletive] Christ, Marmol.
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Hey DLEE you are gone after this year, and are as pathetic offensively and defensively with half the year gone as nuts and gum trying to be funny and witty. Congratulations! You are still the starting baseman for the Chicago Cubs!! You're killing us with your ironclad logic. Translation; I really have no clue about the game of baseball,so I will (try) and snipe my way into the hearts of all. Oh, OK, guy who wants Tyler Colvin to be the Cubs starting 1B.
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Because it's not Newark. And holy Christ, I don't think "slum" means what you think it means if you're deeming all of Brooklyn to be one.
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Hey DLEE you are gone after this year, and are as pathetic offensively and defensively with half the year gone as nuts and gum trying to be funny and witty. Congratulations! You are still the starting baseman for the Chicago Cubs!! You're killing us with your ironclad logic.
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I'm glad he cares. I'm not glad that he's bad at baseball, though. I'm sorry, haven't you heard? The problem is that this team just doesn't care. If they cared more they'd be 154-6.
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No one is saying he's incapable of learning the position. It's just probably not the wisest thing in the world for a player in his first major league season to REGULARLY play a position he's never played as a professional. He's already having to adjust to major league pitching. And while he's hitting well for now, he's bound to have a slump. When that happens, I'd prefer if his focus wasn't divided between his offensive struggles and learning a new position, regardless of how easy said position may be. If the club had any ideas of making him into a first baseman, they would most likely do so during the offseason. This I can live with...All I am saying is this team is going nowhere this year, jerking him in and out of the lineup divides his focus more than going to 1st would...IMO. How is he being "jerked in and out of the lineup?"
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Now, Lee clearly cared based on how angrily he slammed down his helmet, but what's key is that he didn't care ENOUGH. MUST HAVE MORE CARE.
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"Hey, Tyler Colvin! You've shown promising offensive flashes in limited playing time over the first third of the season despite an unremarkable, albeit short, professional baseball career! Congratulations! You're now the starting 1st baseman for the Chicago Cubs!"
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I want this Ram guy running the Cubs yesterday.
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Man, this is an amazing player development path you've got penciled in here.
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THEY NEED A 2ND BASEMAN. PUT HIM THERE!!!
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Also, not that I care much about basketball, but what does moving to Brooklyn have to do with anything? Brooklyn ain't Manhattan and it never will be. There are trendy areas but it's mostly a crime riddled slum like the Bronx. Because one option is Newark and the other is Brooklyn. That's a pretty gigantic difference in terms of the team's identity.
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How can there be any question over this? Always give me a team that reaches the playoffs over garbage like this.
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Wait, what? Colvin is a first baseman now? And you talk about him like he's some awesome offensive player, but he can't face lefties and shouldn't be hitting at the top of the order? He has played it in the past Mr. Know it all, not to mention last I checked my late grandmother could learn to play an adequate 1st base in a month or 2...gimme a [expletive] break joker. Compared to Lee he IS an offensive juggernaut right now, left handed and young to boot. Plate discipline has been his biggest ? so lets bat him leadoff...lol not to mention the already stated HR's per ab on a team that can't score... as dumb as Piniella ? Or simply like to argue?? Only when someone drops several incredibly stupid ideas in a row, and you just wowed us with some real winners. If you're so confident he can hit why can't he hit first in the lineup? Why do you just completely ignore a player's defensive impact vs. their offensive impact? Why do you assume he'd be passable at first, offensively or defensively? What is this history at first of his that you seem to have completely made up?
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And they don't move for 3 years. It might as well be playing for the next 3 years in a black hole until that happens. There's almost zero chance LeBron signs with them this year.
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2004 was a kick in the ass and 2006 stunk, but I swear it's like I have no memory of 2005. I know Lee was amazing, but outside of him being on the cover of ESPN's magazine because of it I've forgotten the entire season.
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Wait, what? Colvin is a first baseman now? And you talk about him like he's some awesome offensive player, but he can't face lefties and shouldn't be hitting at the top of the order?
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Dave Kaplan is a racist who thinks all black people look alike.
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A Randy Armenian Matador.
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Hi, J.R..
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Yeah, this. Hendry is too easily led around by whatever halfassed theory the manager has to fix the team. He did the same thing with Dusty, too.
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Usually they don't.
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Yeah, but the Knicks REALLY suck.
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Carlos Zambrano's brouhaha and apology
Sammy Sofa replied to Outshined_One's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk
I figured this team would be frustrating, but more in the "hover right around .500 the whole season" sense as opposed to this. Don't get me wrong, we are probably on the same page. Maybe we just have different definitions. To me..... 140m payroll/unfun to watch/hovering around .500 = SUCK Oh, that would have sucked, too. Nowhere near the "fun bad" thing people are talking about, but at least they would still be able to beat the likes of the Pirates and Astros. Small consolation, I know.
